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revenant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun revenant has 2 senses
- revenant(n = noun.person) Array - a person who returns after a lengthy absence; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- revenant(n = noun.person) Array - someone who has returned from the dead; Array is a kind of ghost
Adjective revenant has 2 senses
- revenant(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to or typical of a revenant; "revenant shrieks and groans"
- revenant(s = adj.all) recurring - coming back; "a revenant ghost"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
revenant, n. a person who has returned, esp. supposedly from the dead.
Etymology
F, pres. part. of revenir: see REVENUE
ROGET THESAURUS
revenant
Demon
N demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.
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